The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are a visual icon for intelligence itself. Peeling back the layers of this ...

An intermediary thalamic relay station (incoming neurons in red, outgoing neurons in green). (Kuno et al., Cell Rep., 2026) A ...

Using a range of brain measurement techniques researchers assessed the effects of a single, high dose of psilocybin in ...

New research provides evidence that listening to familiar and predictable musical chord progressions while making eye contact ...

A new analysis of individual brain cells across several human brain regions reveals subtle but widespread differences in gene activity between male and female brains. This may help explain why some ...

When modeled jointly, these factors explained up to 15 times more variance in brain aging than any single exposure alone. This finding highlights a key shift: environmental influences on brain health ...

Plenty of studies have found out what sort of impact smoking weed is having on the human brain as thousands of scans have ...

Some fish oil supplements may disrupt brain healing in people who have experienced repeated mild traumatic brain injuries, a ...

"Understanding how spaceflight impacts the human brain is crucial as space exploration and tourism expand," a recently-published study explains Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at ...